Publilius Syrus Quotes - Page 15

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• He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

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  Neptune, Shipwreck

  "Gellius". 17. 14,

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• A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

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  Medicine, Physicians, Patient

  "Maxims".

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• Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.

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  Medicine, Use, Lasts

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• Excessive severity misses its own aim.

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  Missing, Aim, Severity

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• The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.

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  Judgement, Gone, Ends

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• Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

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  Life, Long, Seems

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 124, 1856.

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• Man has been lent, not given, to life.

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  Men, Given, Has Beens

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 487-93, Maxims, 1922.

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• It is better to have a little than nothing.

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  Advice, Littles, Nothingness

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• Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

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  Life Is Short, Men, Immortality

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• It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

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  Taught, Bitter, Obedience

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• A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.

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  Gold, Puddles, Thrones

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• He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.

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  Cabbage, Peppers, Abundance

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• The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

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  Desire, Seems

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• The future struggles that it may not become the past.

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  Struggle, Future, Past

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• That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

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  Enemy, Fortune, Wretched

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• It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

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  Anchors, Two, Safety

  "Maxims". 119,

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• An angry lover tells himself many lies.

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  Lying, Lovers, Angry

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• With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy.

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  Enemy, Littles, Loan

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• When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]

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  Deception

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• He who spares the bad injures the good.

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  Justice, Spares

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• One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

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  Men, Evil, Wickedness

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• It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.

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  Remember, Now And Then, Wells

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• No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

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  Positive Thinking, Trying, Knows

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• Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

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  Opportunity, Lost, Deliberation

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• Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!

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  Thinking, Safe, Dangerous

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